see ernest walk. see ernest run. see ernest throw a grill off of the back deck.

the past few days have been very interesting & entertaining between all three clients. monday carrot top was in fine form, i will do a new blog regarding that whole thing. but basically he's in the hospital in the psych ward of his own free will.

this afternoon was ernest's time to shine and then we will get to fantasia who stole the spotlight for the late evening. anyway, ernest was supposed to turn in his progress report from school today. he did, which his teacher had given him a zero in everything, saying he never did any school work. so our lovely staff (keep in mind that it is mine & ben's day off....which is ALWAYS when the poop hits the fan) was letting him know that he was going to earn consequences since he is always denying the fact that he has homework. well that didn't sit too well with ernest and he got ANGRY. more like flipped out. this doesn't happen often because ernest is well-medicated to keep these situations from happening. (side note: found out that his school hasn't been giving him his meds AT ALL since they ran out and decided not to let us in on that little fact)

ben and i were upstairs and we heard a huge crash, then carmella our associate staff called us and just said, "i need some help, ernest is off his rocker." so ben goes downstairs and outside to help with the problem. i look out the window to see a big potted plant on our back porch tipped over and broken. but then i notice something is missing. hmmmm...our huge grill. where did that go? so carmella sees me looking through the window & i motion to her to ask her where it is and she points to a spot about 10 feet away. i couldn't see the grill laying in pieces because there was a bush blocking my view. since we can't include pictures of the clients because of confidentiality, i thought i'd include some of the poor old grill and the potted plant. RIP.

ben is able to calm ernest down, we get some meds going in his system and he spends the rest of the evening being calm but non-compliant to the house rules. he decides to spend his time playing the playstation, which was then taken out of the home because he was abusing the right to play it. good times.